News
March 31-April 5, 2012
A very unique project….The Ragman Project. Duane has been brought into produce a session of “Hobo Americana”, a reinterpretation of songs by songwriter Ragman. Involved in the project is an amazing array of talent….Justin Craig (gt/piano), Robby Cosenza (drums/percussion), Blake Cox (bass), Joe Gamble (gt), and Casey Call (vox/gt). So many interesting narratives, and stories have guided the music. In addition, a documentary is being filmed of the whole process, and with the help of Ragman, and his supporters we look forward to people seeing this interesting piece of work.
March 1-3, 2012
Mixing sessions for the upcoming Oh My Me ep.
February 24-25, 2012
Mix sessions for Justin Lewis.
February 22, 2012
Shangri-La Mobile Recording Studio: PRESS RELEASE
With Shangri-La Mobile, producer Duane Lundy (Jim James, Ben Sollee, These United States, Vandaveer, Chico Fellini, and Adam Arcuragi) brings his years of experience and impressive digital and analog equipment locker on the road. An array of soundboards, microphones, amplifiers, and instruments transform a remote barn, an urban loft, a live concert hall — if you can locate it, he can capture it — to create your ideal recording space.
Inspired by classic albums from “Exile on Main Street” to “Joshua Tree,” advances in modern audio technology, and contemporaries such as Nigel Godrich and Daniel Lanois, Lundy works with artists’ own influences to harness the unique character of inspiring places. He emphasizes performance, dynamics, texture, and adaptability to the locale over more traditional retentive composite-based recording.
For rates and availability, or to see just how far into a mountainous South American jungle he’s willing to transport his rig, contact Lundy: duane@shangrilaproductions.net
February 20-22, 2012
Mix sessions for The National Reserve
Febuary 9-19, 2012
Mix sessions for Chloe Charles and Aly Tadros.
Febuary 7, 2012
In over two decades as a professional musician, Willie Eames has collaborated with artists across the sonic spectrum. He currently plays guitar and sings with Lexington favorites The Tallboys (blues, rock), Club Dub (reggae, funk), and The Payback (soul). Eames also draws loyal audiences as an acoustic solo act.
For 10 in 20, Eames recorded “Riot Goin’ On” in a single take, in a live unaccompanied performance that sounds like an ensemble. Eames simultaneously plays guitar rhythm and melody, croons with a soulful baritone, and adds boot-powered percussion.
Febuary 7-8, 2012
Final tracking session for Justin Lewis. Ben Sollee at the production helm, and Duane engineering and throwing some textural ruins on the tracks.:)
January 29-31, 2012
Collaborative mixing and post production on Rebecca Miller’s solo album. Rebecca is also a member of the Mynabirds (Saddlecreek). Duane is joined by co-conspirators Justin Craig and J. Tom Hnatow from These United States.
January 16-27, 2012
Mixing Aly Tadros, and Chloe Charles.
January 7-8, 14-15, 2012
Tracking begins w/Oh My Me.
January, 2012
The release of the 4th installment of the Ten In Twenty series
December 27-30, 2011
Philadelphia’s very own Mike Kotulka session w/backing provided by Justin Craig, and Robby Cosenza, w/Duane producing.
December 13-16, 2011
10 in 20 sessions with The Fanged Robot, and Willie Eames.
December 4-10th, 2011
Duane heads to Toronto w/Chloe Charles for phase iii of Chloe’s upcoming album. Strings, vocals, and additional overdubs….
November 28-December 3, 2011
Final tracking sessions w/Aly Tadros. Some wonderful cello work, as well as final Vox tracking provides a the majority of concentration.
December 2012
The third instalment of the Ten In Twenty Series
November 18-22, 2011
Mixing and final post production w/Pictures of Then.
November 1-15, 2011
Final Mix Sessions for the 5th effort by These United States.
November, 2011
The second installment of the Ten In Twenty series
October 19-23 2011
Additional Tracking w/Ancient Warfare
October 15-18, 2o11
Mixing on select tracks for the upcoming Pictures of Then full length.
October 10, 2011
A nice article about the recording of the new These United States album written by Matt Jordan.
October4, 2011
Ten groups of established Lexington musicians each spend two days collaborating on an original track with producer Duane Lundy at Shangri-la Studios. An organic process affirms artists’ distinctive songwriting and musical roots, while painting a broader creative landscape. Monthly debuts of new songs build toward a vinyl album release in 2012.
September 12-19, 2011
Aly Tadros begins work on her 2nd full length album, also the 2nd album w/Duane producing. Emily Hagihara from Chico Fellini…is behind the drum kit on these sessions.
September 1-9, 2011
Sessions with Brooklyn roots rockers The National Reserve.
August 23-28, 2011
Sessions with These United States continue.
August 20-21, 2011
Bowling Green garage rockers The Black Shades recording 4 song EP w/Duane.
August 9-11, 2011
Additional pre-productions sessions w/Chloe Charles.
August 5-7, 2011
Overdubbing/Mixing sessions for The Nativity Singers.
July, 2011
Sessions for a very exciting Lexington based project begins, more info to be announced very soon. Sessions w/Sunday Valley, Matt Duncan, and Coralee and the Townies prove to be very productive.
July 18-21, 2011
These United States take a break from a busy summer tour schedule for continued work on new material for upcoming release. Amazing live off the floor performances encourage some very fine results.
July 15, 2011
Final mixes on the Miles Nielsen album.
July 11, 2011
A wonderful week of pre-production sessions w/the very talented Chloe Charles, who hails from Toronto, Candada.
July 5,2011
Vandaveer is a dynamic alt-folk outfit from D.C. that centers around the harmonies of Mark Charles Heidinger and Rose Guerin. Choosing their words with a distinct sincerity, the duo sing the lows of the human experience just as well as the highs on their third LP, Dig Down Deep. “The Great Gray” is a haunting little tune about death, and now it has a creepy little video to match. The clip features a gas mask-sporting guitarist tearing around an abandoned house in search of various knick-knacks—the end goal being a tiny Frankenstein audience of homemade dolls. Check out the video in the player below.
July 4, 2011
Adam Arcuragi and The Lupine Chorale Society – a group of multifarious and talented musicians from across the country who play under the collective umbrella of the Society - and the music erputs into a veritable tent revival that you can’t help but stomp, clap or sing along to …with enough lyrical satisfaction to work you into a poetic frenzy. Adam and the band recently finished recording a new album with producer Duane Lundy, which is on track to be released through the Thirty Tigers label later this year. They will be touring throughout 2011.
http://www.americanadaily.com/2011/07/adam-arcuragi-lupine-chorale-society.html
June 29-July 1, 2011
Another round w/These United States, mainly focusing on manipulating,mixing, destroying, and experimenting.
June 17-28, 2011
After a couple of years of creative talks, Miles Nielsen brings his amazing new album to Shangri-la for Duane to mix and contribute some additional production.
June 14-15, 2011
Ben Sollee producing Justin Lewis, w/ Duane engineering…
June 7-14, 2011 / May30-31, 2011
Some wonderful new musical explorations w/These United States.
May 16-27, 2011
Duane on the road to Twin Cities to begin work on the new Pictures Of Then project. Continued work soon to follow back home at Shangri-la.
May 15, 2011
An amazing “live off the floor” session with Vandaveer, filmed for a future endeavor. A very talented crew of musicians (Matt Duncan-piano/Chico Fellini’s -Emily Hagihara-bass & Brandon Judd-drums/Ferraby Lionheart-percussion) are kind enough to lend their talents to the project.
May 9, 2011
ROTHSTEIN’S FIRST ASSIGNMENT
Last summer, score work was done on this heartfelt and informative documentary by Duane (textural manipulator), and musician/music supervisor Scott Whiddon. We are very proud of the textural backdrop that we were able to provide, and enjoyed greatly the sonic experimentaions.
May 1, 2011
An amazing session with Kentuckys own The Tallboys. Magic happens when you take fantastic musicians in the same room, and record a live off the floor session. Many songs recorded, some of which will be picked for Duane to mix.
Another wonderful Vandaveer video from the DIG DOWN DEEP album, which was produced/mixed by Duane.
April 28, 2011
Lovely video, for wonderful track from Ben Sollee’s new album INCLUSIONS (yes its out on vinyl), produced by Duane here at Shangri-la.
April 25, 2011
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2011/04/catching-up-with-vandaveer.html
Catching Up With Vandaveer
Recently Mark Charles Heidinger found himself searching for a signal in Lasne, Belgium, a small town about 10 minutes outside of Brussels. His band, Vandaveer, was playing a local venue called Rideau Rouge, and between dinner and soundcheck, we was fielding a call from Paste….
April 24, 2011
The multi-talented Ben Sollee producing singer/songwriter Justin Lewis, with Duane engineering….Justin is coming off a recent performance, opening up for Lucinda Williams.
April 14, 2011
New video for “Electrified” by Ben Sollee from the upcoming album INCLUSIONS, produced by Duane here at Shangri-la.
April 10, 2011
Re-configuring the studio a bit over the next week. New DAW system, and other lovely items here at Shangri-la. Very excited for the upcoming months, lots of great artist that i am gonna have the privilege of working with…more to come. In the meantime i am posting a video from Cheyenne Marie Mize, from her debut album that Duane had the great honor of mixing.
April 2nd, 2011
Vandaveer announced their third full length album Dig Down Deep.
The album is due out on April 26th via Supply & Demand Music and was produced by long-time collaborator Duane Lundy (Jim James, These United States).
Check out the video “The Nature of Our Kind”
March 31, 2011
Ben Sollee will release his new album, Inclusions, this coming May 10th. Duane Lundy, the engineer behind Sollee’s 2007 debut Learning to Bend, returns to handle production on the new album.
March 23, 2011
Great footage provided by NPR of Adam Arcuragi And The Lupine Choral Society, who recently recorded their most recent effort at Shangri-la w/Duane producing>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn6_Z_uoJGE&feature=related
March 22, 2011
Working with w/These United States on some new traxx/ideas. Their “Crimes” album was done at Shangri-la in 2008 w/Duane in the producer seat.
March 10, 2011
Finishing touches on the debut album by Candidate. Looking forward to hearing the master by Fred Kevorkian, www.KevorkianMastering.com (National,Willie Nelson, The White Stripes….)
March 9, 2011
Final sessions for Warren Byrom.
March 6, 2011
Mastering for Vandaveer digital only Single release.
March 5, 2011
An amazing session with J. Irvin Dally with Duane and Justin Craig co-producing.
March 3, 2011
Vandaveer are proud to announce the release of their third full-length album, Dig Down Deep, on April 26th via Supply & Demand Music. Dig Down Deep was produced by long-time collaborator Duane (Jim James, These United States) and is Vandaveer’s finest effort to date.
February 27, 2011
Justin Craig recording and mixing tracks for These United States
February 23, 2011
Continued work on a series of songs/pieces recorded and produced by Duane and Justin Craig.
February 16, 2011
Mixing begins on 3 new tunes for Coralee and The Townies
February 10, 2011
Mixing begins on the Candidate album.
January 17, 2011
Final mixing session for the new Ben Sollee album “Inclusions”. Excited to hear the mastering work of Gavin Lurrsen (Robert Plant/Alison Krauss, T-Bone Burnett)
January 16, 2011
Tracking for Warren Byrom (Swells/Big Maracas) upcoming debut solo album.
January 5, 2011
The new Sunday Valley album is set for release. This album was done here at Shangri-la over the summer of 2010. A wonderful piece of live off the floor performance based recording, produced by Duane.
January 3, 2011
Work begins on set of material for Duane and Justin Craig production. This material will be predominately used for licensing placement.
December 26, 2010
Wonderful tracking session w/Echo Wilcox and the entire Shangri-la wrecking crew (Justin Craig, Robby Cosenza, & Azniv).
December 18, 2010
Additional recording/tracking for Coralee and The Townies
December 10, 2010
A nice article in the North of Center Magazine.
Review of Palisades: “Luxury and Riot”
“Even in the digital age, there’s really no substitute for a well-equipped studio, skilled engineering, and a producer who knows how to make bands sound the best they possibly can.
Which is precisely what Duane Lundy, working at Lexington’s Shangri-la Studio, has done for Palisades on their new EP Luxury and Riot. Palisades are a three-piece outfit working in a musical vein that manages to recall the early-nineties heyday of post-punk college radio while avoiding its atonal excesses and navel-gazing attitudes; instead there’s a reverence for both noisy guitars and the well-crafted pop song.
What Palisades and Lundy have accomplished on this release is something close to the perfect combination of the raw and the produced:”
http://noclexington.com/?p=2528
December 7, 2010
Ben Sollee joins the legendary Billy Bragg, M. Ward, Owen Pallett, Ian Cooke and 16 other artists from six countries contributing their cover versions of singer/songwriter/harpist Joanna Newsom’s music for a new compilation, Versions of Joanna.
The compilation is a project to directly benefit Oxfam America and their continuing work to assist the flood relief effort in Pakistan, which has been hit by the worst weather in decades, affecting some 20.5 million people. Oxfam has now reached more than 1.4 million people there with humanitarian aid, providing clean water, hygiene supplies and food.
A gift of $10 or more gets you the comp. Head on over to find out more!
Some wonderful tracking sessions begins on new project Candidate, w/Duane producing. 13 amazing basic tracks were layed down w/final overdub sessions to come later this month.
November 23, 2010
Tracking The Fanged Robot (Robby Cosenza of These United States). An opportunity to work with one of our fave musicians on a grouping of songs that Robby has been playing live for the past decade.
November 20, 2010
Two productive days recording basic tracks for Matt Duncan’s 2nd solo album.
November 14, 2010
First of many sessions begins with the talented Marcie Bolen (Von Bondies/Silverghost) on her first solo project.
November 7, 2010
Songwriter Andrew English, a.k.a. Englishman, joined ASCAP’s Lavinia Jones Wright for a Playback Field Recording in Shangri La Studios in Lexington, KY. Here he performs his song “Hummingbirds Blackout.”
October 20, 2010
Work commences on new Killer Meteor material with Duane in the production seat. A continuation of the first albums vibe. Basic tracking done with Ms Emily Hagihara on the kit and Eric Smith (the killerest of meteors) on vox/guitar, sets the stage. Work will continue over the next couple of months ritualistically on Weds.
October 17, 2010
A wonderful month with Duane working on the final mixes for Adam Arcuragi’s new album, as well as Chicago songwriter Dan Tedesco.
October9, 2010
Tracking sessions have begun for the new Killer Meteor, with Duane at the helm producing.
October 6, 2010
Chico Fellini record PJ Harvey “The River” and original “Spark” for their ongoing Singles Series Project
October 2, 2010
Recording begins for the 2nd Coralee and The Townies effort w/Duane producing
September 24, 2010
Tracking session for Adam Arcuragi and Dan Tedesco w/Duane producing.
September 13, 2010
Chico Fellini record Peaches “F__k The Pain Away”, and original “Cherry Tree”.
September 10, 2010
Mix Session w/People Noise featuring Zeke Buck (formerly of VHS or BETA)
September 6, 2010
Mix Sessions for the new Vandaveer EP “A Minor Spell”
September 1, 2010
Tracking and Mixing on the new A. Mason project.
August 30, 2010
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